Garment-forming mechanism.



J. 0. VON STETTEN.

GARMENT FORMING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION men MAR. 3;. 1911.

1,292,167, Patented Jan. 21,1919. 1

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JULIUS OTTO VON STETTEN, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PHILA- DELPHIA METAL DRYING FORM COMPANY, OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, A CORPO- RATION OF DELAWARE.

GARMENT-FORMIN G MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

Application filed March 31, 1917. Serial No. 158,954.

heated garment formers, (2) to construct means by which'internally heated garment formers may be selectively adjusted to form any desired angle with their supporting means and (3) to construct an internally.

heated garment former which will embody means for promoting the circulation of a heating medium through the former.

The universally used heating mediums for heating garment formers are steam and electricity. Steam is a disadvantage because it requires a specially constructed former to permit of the circulation of the fluid, either a partition or a pi e being used for this purpose; if the circu ation is defective, parts of the garment former may become air bound thereby preventing uniformity of surface temperature on the garment former, whereas such uniformity of surface temperature is desirable.

-It is not desirable to permit the escape of steam into the work room, therefore it is important not to allow the steam to pass through perforations into the atmosphere to roduce a circulation.

he cost of electricity is rohibitive.

I have devised a means 0 heating a gar ment former by means of heated air; the extremity of the former. being perforated, allowing the heated air to escape, thereby producing circulation. I have also overcome the difliculty of leaky joints and 'fittings such as are common in the conventional steam system.

The reason for my second object is the following. In the use of garment formers, especially to be used for hosiery, the former -must be tilted at an angle to the table to which it is secured to facilitate the placing and removing of hoslery. The most efficient angle of operation varies with the size of communication with each other.

the former, and the height of the operator. My means permit of positioning the former at any degree of. angularity relative to the supporting table.

My specially constructed former obviates the necessity of a partition or an internal pipe.

Simplicity, low cost of operation, labor saving and speed in operation are among my principal objects. With the above and other objects in view, my invention has re lation to certain novel features of construction and operation, examples of which are described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanymg drawings in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of my system of heating garment formers.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmental longitudinal sectional elevation of one of the garment formers.

I have shown the garment formers for use with hosierybut do not desire to be limited to any particular arment conformation for the formers. eferring by numerals to the accompanying drawings.

Numeral 4, designates a table, having the top 5 and the legs 6 with the stiffening brace 7 for the legs; 8 designates conventional garment formers having perforations 9 at their extremities. The formers 8 are firmly secured to the semi-cylindrical shell 10, which rests rotatably in the semi-cylindrical well 11. The shell and formers are in fluid At the one extremity of the shell 10 the pipe 12 is secured rotatively. The joint between the shell 10 and the pipe 12 must be practically air tight.

-The well 11 is slotted as shown in Fig. 2 to permit the bolt 13 which is secured at the center to the shell 10, to pass through the slot when the shell 10 is in position in well 11 as shown in Fig. 2. Bolt 13 extends beyond and beneath the well 11; and to its lower end by means of threads the wing nut 14 is secured.

By moving the bolt. 13, when the nut 14 is loose, circumferentially in the slot in the well 11, the shell 10 is rotated within the well and hence the formers 8 are tilted to any desired angle relative to the table 4.

By means of the nut 14, the shell 10 and hence the formers 8 are secured in any desired position.

15-designates a source of non-condensing heat'medium such as heated air which by means of the pipe 16 is placed in fluid communication with the pipe 12, the shell 10 and the formers 8 through the perforations 9 to the atmosphere. 17 designates a fan, externally operated for producing a circulation of air through the formers. The heat source 15 that I articularly select is a hot air furnace, in w ich air is taken from an external source and moved into contact with a heated drum and thence to the pipe 16.- I do not contemplate the entrance of the products of combustionanto the formers.

The operation of my device is as follows:

The formers are firmly positioned at the most convenient angle for the operator and then the heat medium is permitted to circulate as indicated by the arrows through the formers into the atmosphere.

The advantage of this system is seen greatest in small plants where a source of steam is not available; its up keep is a minimum since the construction of the formers is greatly simplified by the lack of the necessity of returning a condensed fluid to the heat source.

What I claim and mean to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. In a garment drying and finishing system, a means of connecting a source of heated air, a table, a group of garment formers, said group of formers mounted on said table in such a manner as to permit selective angular adjustment of the members of said group of garment formers simultane 'ously relative to said table, said formers and said means of connecting said source of heated air in fluid communication.

2. In a garment drying and finishing sys-' tem in combination with a table, a semicylindrical well, a hollow shell, garment formers and means of connecting a source'of heat, said well firmly secured to said table, said shell in rotative contact in said well and said garment formers secured to said shell and means for establishing fluid communication between said garment formers, said shell and said means of connecting a source of heat. 3

3. In a garment drying and finishing system, a table incombination with a oup of garment formers and means for se ectively positioning the members of said group of formers simultaneously at any desired angle relativeto' said table; 7 a

- 4. In a' arment drying and finishing system, a tab e, a semi-cylindrical well, a holwell firmly secured to said table, said shell in rotative contact in said well, and said group 'of garment formers secured to said shell and means for establishing fluid communication between the said garment formers, said shell and said means of connecting a source of heat.

5. In a drying and finishing system, a row of garment formers, firmly secured to a table, said garment formers in common communication with means of connecting a source of heat, and means of adjusting the entire row of formsto a selective operative position by one adjustment.

6.A garment drying apparatus comprising a stand, a pipe for a fluid medium supported on said stand, hollow drying forms secured to said pipe, said pipe being turnable on its axis to simultaneously change the angles of inclination of said forms, and means to secure said pipe to said stand in the different positions to which the pipe may be turned.

7- In a garment drier, the combination with a stand, of a pipe supported thereon and provided with a flattened face, and a drying form secured to said flattened face, the pipe except for of circular shape and the stand having bearings of similar shape to permit the pipe to fit therein while allowing the pipe to be adjusted on its axis to determine the direction of extension of the form.

8. In a garment drier, the combination with a stand having a longitudinally extending channel, of a pipe extending beneath said channel, and a drying form secured-to said pipe and extending u ward above the the flattened face being open top of the channel, said pipe being adto determine the direction of extension of the form, and pipe-supporting means shaped to conform to the circular face of the pipe.

,9. In a garmentdrier, -the combination witha table having a longitudinally extending channel, of a horizontally extending pipe extending below said channel, and a drying form secured to said pipe and extending upjustable on its axis ward therefrom, said pipe being turnable on its axis to determine the direction of exten- JULIUS oT'ro VON STE-TTEN.

Witnesses:

Henna J. PRESSMAN, M. N, 

